On Monday, September first, we went up to the water
tanks at Parker Ranch to establish a wireless connection between the Energy Lab
and the water tank station. This would give us Internet connection roughly 20
miles from the lab. The original plan was to use the Power Bridge M-5, which is
the antenna that forms the wireless connection, to find the Energy Lab antenna
and make the connection. However, because of the preciseness of the Power
Bridge M-5, it was too difficult to find the Energy Lab antenna and therefore,
we were not able to establish a connection. Then, we tried the Nano Station M-2,
which is less precise with two gigahertz rather than the Power Bridge M-5’s
five gigahertz. When this also
didn’t work, we tried using the Nano Station M-2 along with the Bullet M-2,
which is a far more basic antenna. However, the Nano and the Bullet started
“talking” to each other rather than making the connection with the Energy Lab
so we disconnected the Nano and used the Bullet to establish our connection.